The Hurriyet daily said the talks on Monday would focus on the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a separatist militant outfit from Turkey's Kurdish minority branded a "terrorist" group by Washington and Ankara.

Turkey has long expressed frustration at Washington's reluctance to remove PKK sanctuaries in Kurdish-majority areas of northern Iraq, from where they launch armed operations in Turkey.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. The conflict has claimed some 37,000 lives.

Erdogan confirmed to journalists that he would meet Goss on Monday but refused to be drawn on specifics, saying only that the CIA director was coming at Ankara's invitation, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Goss's trip comes two days after US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller visited Turkey to discuss the PKK.

It also comes after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a European tour to clarify reports of CIA anti-terror shuttle flights and alleged secret prisons in Europe.